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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-08-18 17:11:14 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2007-08-18 17:11:14 +0000
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Remove references to the now-deleted installation notes and add a
pointer to the installation chapter of the Handbook (it might be a good idea to sprinkle a few more through this article). De-emphasize the floppy disk part of installation media; it's generally believed that most users install from CDROM or DVD nowadays. Use &arch.* entities where appropriate. Bump copyright date while here. Approved by: re (implicitly)
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml
index 5910137..fb4542a 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
+ <year>2007</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -52,13 +53,12 @@
<title>About &os;</title>
<para>&os; is an operating system based on 4.4 BSD Lite for
- DEC/Compaq/HP Alpha/AXP computers (alpha),
- AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (amd64),
- Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen <quote>x86</quote> based PC hardware (i386),
- Intel Itanium Processor based computers (ia64),
- NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (pc98),
- and &ultrasparc; machines (sparc64). Versions
- for the &powerpc; (powerpc), and &mips; (mips)
+ AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (&arch.amd64;),
+ Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen <quote>x86</quote> based PC hardware (&arch.i386;),
+ Intel Itanium Processor based computers (&arch.ia64;),
+ NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (&arch.pc98;),
+ and &ultrasparc; machines (&arch.sparc64;). Versions
+ for the &powerpc; (&arch.powerpc;), and &mips; (mips)
architectures are currently under
development as well. &os; works with a wide variety of
peripherals and configurations and can be used for everything
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
provides a convenient way to quickly reinstall the system if
necessary. Some distributions include some of the optional,
precompiled <quote>packages</quote> from the &os; Ports
- Collection.</para>
+ Collection, or other extra material.</para>
<para>A list of the CDROM and DVD publishers known to the
project are listed in the <ulink
@@ -195,12 +195,12 @@
URL="&url.articles.hubs;/">Mirroring
&os;</ulink> article.</para>
- <para>Mirrors generally contain the floppy disk images necessary
- to begin an installation, as well as the distribution files
- needed for the install process itself. Many mirrors also
- contain the ISO images necessary to create a CDROM of
- a &os; release.</para>
-
+ <para>Mirrors generally contain the ISO images generally used to
+ create a CDROM of a &os; release. They usually also contain
+ floppy disk images (for applicable platforms), as well as the
+ files necessary to do an installation over the network.
+ Finally mirrors sites usually contain a set of packages for
+ the most current release.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -296,8 +296,7 @@
provided in various formats. Most distributions will include
both ASCII text (<filename>.TXT</filename>) and HTML
(<filename>.HTM</filename>) renditions. Some distributions
- may also include other formats such as PostScript
- (<filename>.PS</filename>) or Portable Document Format
+ may also include other formats such as Portable Document Format
(<filename>.PDF</filename>).
<itemizedlist>
@@ -322,12 +321,6 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><filename>INSTALL.TXT</filename>: Installation
- instructions for installing &os; from its distribution
- media.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
<para><filename>ERRATA.TXT</filename>: Release errata.
Late-breaking, post-release information can be found in
this file, which is principally applicable to releases
@@ -338,20 +331,10 @@
created.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
- <note>
- <para>There are various versions of
- <filename>INSTALL.TXT</filename>, each containing information
- specific to a particular hardware architecture.
- The architecture
- to which each document applies will be listed in that
- document's title.</para>
- </note>
-
</para>
<para>On platforms that support &man.sysinstall.8; (currently
- alpha, &i386;, ia64, pc98, and &sparc64;), these documents are generally available via the
+ &arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.ia64;, &arch.pc98;, and &arch.sparc64;), these documents are generally available via the
Documentation menu during installation. Once the system is
installed, you can revisit this menu by re-running the
&man.sysinstall.8; utility.</para>
@@ -403,7 +386,9 @@
url="&url.base;/docs.html">&os; Documentation
page</ulink> or its mirrors. If you install the
<filename>doc</filename> distribution set, you can use a Web
- browser to read the Handbook and FAQ locally.</para>
+ browser to read the Handbook and FAQ locally. In particular,
+ note that the Handbook contains a step-by-step guide to
+ installing &os;.</para>
<para>A number of on-line books and articles, also maintained by
the &os; Project, cover more-specialized, &os;-related topics.
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